The status of nuclear industry Cost Beneficial Licensing Actions (CBLA) activities. Final report

Technical Report · Mon May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:83861

Ross, A M; Sokolsky, D

The project addressed in this report investigated the status of nuclear utility industry Cost Beneficial Licensing Action (CBLA) and Commitment Reduction (CR) activities. The CBLA program was a recent NRC initiative to enable utilities to revise regulatory commitments that have minimal safety impact and have but have been costly to implement. The project determined that approximately half of the utilities in the industry have formal programs to address this issue and that the programs implemented to date have had mixed results: some utilities benefited greatly and others only achieved minimal rewards. The project also determined that there are some significant factors that impact the potential for success of such programs. These factors include the level of management involvement and support, the level of resources dedicated to CBLA/CR activities, and the willingness of the utility to pursue issues that previously had not been considered. In addition, the overall success of the industry efforts will be highly dependent upon the effectiveness of the respective assigned NRR Project Manager, NRC`s newly formed CBLA Task Group, and the NRC`s ability to effect a mechanism to provide real value added for those submittals made to the Commission that are designated as CBLA submittals. It is anticipated that the next 12 months will be critical to the success or failure of industry CBLA/CR efforts as the industry begins to use an NEI process designed to facilitate the evaluation of CBLA/CR issues and the NRC CBLA Task Group begins to function in a routine manner.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Pacific Gas and Electric Co., San Francisco, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 83861
• Report Number(s): EPRI-TR--104987
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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LICENSING
LICENSING PROCEDURES
MODIFICATIONS
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
REGULATIONS
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